Safe Space

Take a virtual tour through NERAM's current exhibition Safe Space and engage with the resources below...

Safe Space

NERAM is proud to present Safe Space, a major touring exhibition of contemporary sculpture, showcasing the works of 12 acclaimed Australian artists: Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Alex Seton, Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro, David Cross, Franz Ehmann, Karla Dickens, Keg de Souza, Michelle Nikou, Rosie Miller, Tim Sterling and Will French.

Featuring a diversity of sculptural materials, techniques and scale, Safe Space explores different notions of space — abstract or real, physical, psychological, political and social — to spark the viewer’s curiosity.

Many of the works in this exhibition take as their point of departure the human body: its dimensions, the spaces it occupies, the narratives that contain it and the theatre or spectacle that unfolds around it.

According to exhibition Curator, Christine Morrow, “The title of the exhibition coaxes viewers to consider the ways these artworks engage the themes of safety and its lack; space in all its rich possibility and — perhaps unexpectedly — in all its difficulty. Sculpture is conventionally defined by the way it occupies three dimensions. Yet these works project into other psychological and cultural dimensions; those that cannot be contained within the physical realm”.

Safe Space will be displayed at NERAM from 9 July to 3 October 2021, as a part of its national tour to regional and metropolitan centres in Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria.

While school excursions are restricted, NERAM invites to you take a virtual tour through the exhibition Safe Space and engage in the resources provided…

Safe Space artists Michelle Nikou, Rosie Miller, Will French, Sean Cordeiro, Claire Healy, Franz Ehmann, Keg de Souza and David Cross in a panel discussion with Curator, Christine Morrow, at the launch of the exhibition at Logan Art Gallery, QLD.

Artist Talk with Safe Space featured artist Alex Seton

Artist Talk with Safe Space featured artist Abdul-Rahman Abdullah

 

Education Resource, Stages 3-5

This Education Resource supports the touring exhibition Safe Space contemporary sculpture. The contents align with the Australian Curriculum, specifically Years 5 – 10. Key Ideas from each of the Learning Areas – English, Mathematics, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, The Arts, Technologies, Health and Physical Education, Languages – are implemented throughout this Education Resource. Suggested questions and tasks integrate one or more of the General Capabilities and/or Cross-Curriculum Priorities. Educators are invited to select and modify the questions and tasks in this Education Resource to provide opportunities for different levels of engagement for both phases of learning. Click to view/download Education Resource Safe Space >>

Activity, Early Stages 1 - 2

Have you ever heard of an artist collaborating with bees? Featured Safe Space artist Franz Ehmann folded his business shirts into neat rectangles and coated them in wax before inserting into the frames in the honey box of his bee hives. When he drew them out after two weeks, the insects had built up wax cell structures all over the shirts! The beehive is a safe space that is defended determinedly by the bees – investigate the wonderful world of bees and partake in fun activities here >>